Word: soberly
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...small amount of undergraduate humility should be a good nostrum for the literary aspirant. If the Mr. Wades of the college would content themselves with sober and constructive criticisms within their depth they would gain a great many ears which are now deaf to them. "The Saturday Review" would I am sure not only welcome but publish a sensible criticism of its policies. (Name withheld by request...
...book. It has nothing in common with the trash of Hollywood "Westerns," except that old friend, the word "hoss." Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental: the few blunt words dropped here and there to describe a purple butte or a lush valley are almost touching, naively juxtaposed...
...incidents in The Lost Patrol are fictitious. The sober tempo of Director John Ford's narrative gives them the character of fact. Nothing is dramatized except the presence of Death. The only suspense is that of counting very slowly toward a dozen. No more is necessary to make the picture as sharp and alarming as the crack of a rifle. Best shot: a last hooded Arab following his dead companions into the oasis...
...Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals there. I never felt better in my life." With little respect for sober scientific fact, the New York World-Telegram printed fresh feature stories on "Pharaoh's curse...
Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...